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1 June 2011

the exhibiting and exchanging of secrets

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은밀한 교환You are invited to send secrets by mail to two exhibitions

The SECREt eXCHANGE

..........Tell Me Tell Me SECRETS....at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia140 George StreetCircular Quay WestSydney, Australia 2000............exhibition from 16 Jun 2011 - 24 Aug 2011............your work accepted from now and throughout the exhibition ............DEADLINE: 24 AUGUST 2011****

..........Tell Me Tell Me SECRETSand at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, KoreaSan 58-4, Makgye-dongGwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-doSeoul, Korea 427-701.............exhibition from 8 Nov 2011 – 19 Feb 2012.............your work accepted from now and throughout the exhibition.............DEADLINE: 19 FEBRUARY 2012****

Please send Secrets in any medium to both galleries.(secrets, about secrets, your secrets, other’s secrets, secrets that please, secrets that release, secrets that make people free,)

Your ENVELOPES* containing secrets are for display in the exhibitions. Gallery visitors may select from these envelopes on the condition that they themselves reveal secrets in exchange. These will be posted back to the artists selected; and this ongoing process of ‘selection’ will continuously alter the display throughout the period of the exhibition.

For our use, please include an INFORMATION PAGE*** with each envelope (dimensions below). This page is for our records and will be removed from the envelope. The page should include the following:1. Name, address, email contact, facebook, etc.2. Name of your work.3. From whom (e.g. person, facebook etc) did you hear about The SECREt eXCHANGE? 4. What are the areas of your ‘practise’ (in prioritized order)?5. Other information, verbal or visual, of your choice, including back of the page.See below for the size of the Information Page.So that the Information Page may be removed, DO NOT SEAL THE ENVELOPE. Envelopes can be, if needed, kept closed with vertical strips of sticky tape. Exchanged secrets and documentation will be sent to you. Please pass this invitation on by all means at your disposal (facebook, email, rumour).

......details.............................................................................Re: ENVELOPE SIZE (*) Standard business envelope sizes are our preferred maximum, however, the preference is not a restrictionRe: INFORMATION PAGES SIZE (***) Pages are A4-size vertical. North Americans should use Legal Size which can be cut down to A4 (8 ½ “x 11 ¾). A margin for book-binding of 4 cm (roughly 1 ¾”) should be left empty on the left-hand side of the page. The backs of sheets may also be used for any additional material of your choice. When secrets are sent in addition to the initial two, the enclosed Information Pages only need your name, address, title of work – and whatever else you choose to include. Leave the bottom 1/3 of the page empty for our entries.Anything you choose can go on all of the back of the page.Re: FACEBOOK/THE SECRET EXCHANGE List your participation by Liking the SECREt eXCHANGE in FaceBook at ( http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SECREt-eXCHANGE/204968246197476?sk=info); establish a record of your work by scanning, photographing, copying relevant parts (tantalizing, intriguing) for your own pages and ours by Friending in FaceBook at (https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000748977585) , or send to not.terryreid@hotmail.com. We also suggest that you keep copies of work for your own exhibitions, publication, publicity, other and archival purposes. Note: The SECRET EXCHANGE is an ongoing project, first publicly implemented in 1976, it will be continuing into the future in morphing form, guise, disguise.